"The Red Hibiscus"
by
Eternally Asuka
The blue sky clear of clouds let the sunlight greet everything in Orb. In the early morning as always people wake up to do their regular actions: work, school, studies … life. As time goes by, people constantly read the newspaper and then throw them to the trash, some of them don't make to it or are flew away by the wind ending on the floor, which usually belongs to dark alleys. This one belong from two days ago, it was lying nest to the tall and harsh wall, its headline was about a assassinate, a murder is not a good news but in this case as sometimes many other, the victim was not entirely innocent.
"The Red Hibiscus strikes again" said the big letters on the top of the paper with s bold black making emphasis.
Under the headline, nest to text which had the information of that news, was picture, a dark one, but enough to see that it was man, on the ground and dead. The photo didn't show much, anyhow it could be seen that the murder was clean obviously made by a professional. After that there was only one more thing that called the attention, the corpse laying face down with a red spot on it. It was a hibiscus was on the dead man's back, tainted by the blood of the victim, turning the flower into bloody reminding that The Red Hibiscus did it, that was the mark, the characteristic of the killer: a bloody red hibiscus. That lost was indeed a big deal, the victim belonged to the high rank in PLANT that came down to Orb to do some business.
In somewhere else, a young girl around her sixteen's was standing next to the bus stop. The mild whispers from the wind made the girl's locks to move rhythmly, caressing her cheeks. The girl smiled. She drove her right hand to hold some of her rebellious locks.
"Yeah, I prefer my hair like this" she reminded herself, remembering her previous long hair, generally tied up in a ponytail and slightly covered by her hat when she worked at night. Her hair was cut few months ago leaving it short reaching her shoulders.
Without warning her cell phone rang, she turned her head to her back, opening her backpack she took it and open it. On the screen was wrote: Kisaka.
"Hi Kisaka" she greeted cheerily, smiling.
"Where are you Cagalli?" the voice said on the other side of the phone.
"That's how you greet me?" she teased her protector. "I'm heading to school, why?"
"Nothing just wanted to check on you because there are some rumours that somebody was sent to deal you, so be careful" he warned her.
"Don't worry, you know I can take care of myself, Kisaka … and how that info came out?" she asked still standing waiting to the bus.
"I guess it comes from your last job" he answered and a small "oh" came to be heard by him. "Please be cautious, I don't' want you to get hurt."
"I know, I know, I'll try my best ok? Anything else?" She understood complete why he was worrying but you can't be worried forever, she thought, she knew he cared a lot about her and so she did, he was like a big brother and sometimes maybe a loving father she never had or she never remember she had.
"Yes, in fact there is, I got information of Blue Cosmos" he told her seriously.
That comment cause that the face of the blonde darkened, obviously telling that she was deadly interested about Kisaka was just telling her by the cell phone.
"And don't forget" said Kisaka with a lively mood finishing his call, "to buy some ice scream."
"Eh? How did you know?" He laughed.
"I went to your house to check how was it, with that I can congratulate you, it's CLEAN!" He kept laughing until his sense kicked in. Now Cagalli was fuming. "and before you got the chance to yell at me, I'll hang up, bye! . . . " He hang up, leaving and speechless mad Cagalli.
"Agh! KISAKA!" she yelled anyway even knowing he would not hear her.
Then a sweet and peaceful smile was draw on her face. "What would I do without you, Kisaka? She asked aloud looking at the sky. She closed her eyes.
"It's being already a year since I've freed myself form those idiots" She was thinking out loud. " To be married to that creep! I rather be dead" she smiled wickedly and lowering her voice, she continued, " no that's not true, I'd him before the wedding. She stopped her thoughts as the bus arrived.
A blurred picture of a boy running with an orange hibiscus in his hand came to her mind. Waking up from her memory she blinked. She said beaming, "I definitely love orange hibiscus" before getting into the bus that would take her to school.
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In a space shuttle, a blue haired young man wearing his military red uniform was resting on his sit, with his eyes closed he remembered in his dreams, years ago when he was still a child, playing on the beach with his best friend and his little sister, though she always said she was the older one, a smile appeared on his peaceful face. He was heading to Earth, to Orb, he had a mission, a special task was set just for him, for being an elite soldier, son of the current chairman at PLANT, sent to find out the identity of the killer, responsible for the death of one of the partner of his father. He had some information but it was not enough to proof it was true. He opened his eyes.
"Cagalli, can't be her" he said quietly wishing that coincidences really exist.
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In the middle of the night, Orb was quiet, most of its population was sleeping and some of the exception were the pair who were talking about business.
"Yuna you are just going to give me the names and the money" came a cold voice.
"Ok ok, its Uzumi Nara Athha" a purple haired man said with low voice.
"The head representative?" a woman dress with dark clothes, her hat covering most of her long blond hair and face asked to be sure she heard right.
"Yes, honey, the representative himself" he said smirking.
Hello everybody thanks for reading, the ch is short cus is the first and I wanna know if you like it, if you do, I'll continue it, personally I like this fic, one of my best ideas for a AxC. Until now everything is mysterious lol more will be revealed in the –future- next chapter, so review!
For those who are waiting for my other fics like "Cursed Maidens" which is more likely to be update sooner than "the Friends Alliance," I think I'm gonna stop writing this one, I didn't have as much reviews I expected, but I maybe write some one shots with some ideas originally part of that fic.
Hope you like it, bye. Enjoy!
Eternally Asuka.